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How to Be a Cool Mom Without Letting Your Kids Get Away With Murder

Watch more How to Instill Good Values in Kids videos: http://www.howcast.com/guides/377-How-to-Instill-Good-Values-in-Kids Subscribe to Howcast's YouTube Channel - http://howc.st/uLaHRS Learn how to be a cool mom -- without letting your kids get away with murder. Howcast uploads the highest quality how-to videos daily! Be sure to check out our playlists for guides that interest you: http://howc.st/ytmainplaylists Subscribe to Howcast's other YouTube Channels: Howcast Health Channel - http://howc.st/HOE3aY Howcast Video Games Channel - http://howc.st/tYKKrk Howcast Tech Channel - http://howc.st/rx9FwR Howcast Food Channel - http://howc.st/umBoJX Howcast Arts & Recreation Channel - http://howc.st/vmB86i Howcast Sports & Fitness Channel - http://howc.st/vKjUjm Howcast Personal Care & Style Channel - http://howc.st/vbbNt3 Howcast empowers people with engaging, useful how-to information wherever, whenever they need to know how. Emphasizing high-quality instructional videos, Howcast brings you experts who provide accurate information in easy-to-follow tutorials on everything from makeup, hairstyling, nail art design, and soccer to parkour, skateboarding, dancing, kissing, and much, much more. Step 1: Pick your battles Pick your battles. If the only rule your child is breaking is good taste, let it slide. Step 2: Be respectful Be respectful of their preferences -- in music, clothes, hairstyles, romantic partners, or anything else. You don't have to agree with them, but you don't have to be insulting, either. Tip Try listening to some of their music. You never know; you may like it! Step 3: Listen When your child wants to talk, stop whatever you're doing and really listen, no matter how late it is or how tired you are. And keep an open mind: Even when you overrule them, at least they'll feel they were heard, and that your decision wasn't arbitrary. Step 4: Welcome their friends Make their friends feel welcome in your home. Just make sure you know exactly what they're doing under your roof. Tip Be aware that letting your children's friends drink alcohol in your home does not make you cool, it makes you a criminal. Step 5: Be the adult Lay down the law when necessary. Better that they resent you now for disciplining them than wonder down the line why you didn't protect them when they got into trouble. Step 6: Realize being cool makes you uncool Realize that, in the end, kids don't really want parents who are too "cool"; they want -- and need -- parents to be parents. Did You Know? _OK Magazine_ readers voted Halle Berry "Coolest First-Time Mom" in 2008.

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